Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-11-17
A VALIANT FIGHT.

1
the Telephone and Won!
Rochester, N. Y. is the only city in the
United States which does not generally use
the Bell telephone!
On the goth of November, 1886, about
seven hundred subscribers hung up their
| phones, and they have been hung up since
It is the most noteworthy fight with a cor
poration ever known.
The cause of it was the attempt of the
| local Bell company (whose officers all lived
| in another city, to exact rate per message
/ from the subscribers, instead of ''fat
rate" The people resisted it, the courts
/ sustained the position that the license was
| revokable at will, the Common Council re-
voked it. The company ignored this action,
| and without permission erected poles in the
| streets and strung additional wires, but the
| courts held that this was unlawful.
| According to the message rate house like
| II. H. Warner & Co., proprierors of War
| ner's safe cure, who were among the heaviest
| patrons, would have to pay something like
| one thousand dollars year for the same tel
| ephone service as before.
For city of one hundred and twenty-five
! thousand people Rochester has made good
4 many sensations. Sam Patch and his deadly
leap, the Fox sisters spiritual rappings,
/ Stewards E'Irrepressible conflict speech, Su-
l sen B. Anthony's attempt to vote, the come
| tary discoveries of DR.. Swift, of Warner OBJ
servatory, have each made the city the Fttalk
1 of the world" she leads in the manufacture
| of proprietary medicine, and her immense
1 nursery, shoe and clothing interests put her
| in the front rank.
The origin of one of her greatest indus
1 tries is interesting. About ten years ago one
of her foremost citizens was stricken down
| in the very height of a successful business
| career with what his doctors said was an in
durable disease. They gave him up to die.
| He then used what is now known as War
/ ners safe cure, and since then has developed
/ as the worlds great champion of the people
| against the assumed monopoly of physicians
i over the treatment of disease.
His fight too has been a determined one,
1 and as successful as determined. To day he
| is the head of tho largest proprietary medi-
! cine business in the world, having branch
| houses and laboratories in London, England
| Toronto, Canada; Melbourne, Victoria; Sgd
| ney, New South Wales; Frankfort, Germany;
| Prague, Austria; Rangoon, Burmah.
Many foreign governments will not permit
| the manufacture and sale of proprietary
| medicines of any name or nature until their
| formula, value and harmlessness are by
them established after the most searching
scientific inquiries. In every case Warmers
safe cure has passed examination with the
| highest satisfaction to the government chem
lists and analysts, and the sought-tor permits
sion has been granted, which no other Amer
| lean has before secured.
This confirms the magnificent reputation
given it by leading physicians, ministers,
! Senators, Congressman, lawyers and ladies of
the world. ''Its secret of success" says the
leading physician at Clifton Springs, N. Y,
| sanitarium. sis the simplicity of it's com
pounds and the proportions in which they
are compounded"
Chow do the people get on2''
The universal verdict is: "We don't miss
the phone except to our profit"
There has been practically no break in the
united opposition begun last November.
The American is getting to be quite as
tenacious of his personal rights against
conspiring monopolies as is the typical Eng
lishman, and this Rochester telephone cpl
sode is a noteworthy illustration of the fact.